Is discrimination the key to Realization?

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Discrimination is the result of an emergence in the mind of the reflection

of the source of consciousness in the Heart.

 

Hrdayam is the spiritual heart, unrelated to the Anahata chakra. The

Hrdayam is located 2 digits to the right of the sternum in the synod or

pacemaker of the physical heart, which is 1/8th to the right of the sternum.

 

It is the location where you point when you say "I"

 

72 nadis extend from this Center with one of them coming up to the brain the

Sahasrara, having 1,000 pedals. The combination of these pedals and nadis

provided the body with 72,000 impulse that encode themselves throughout the

body and mind and become the basis for the complex sense of identity.

 

The nadi that rises from the Hrdayam to the Sahasrara is the major vagus

nerve. It has also been called the Atma nadi and para nadi. It is where the

bhram gyanis dwell.

 

The Hrdayam is known as the Solar Orb, and the Sahasrara, the Lunar Orb.

This is because the all pervasive Being Consciousness emanates through the

Hrdayam extending through all the nadis consciousness and the sense or

feeling of "I" through which we arrive at the thought "I am ... this and

that" as every image appears in the mind and every sensation is felt in the

body. The result is that we build an idea of an identity around the

combination of the sense of "I" and the consciousness of thoughts and

impressions appearing in the mind.

 

When we speak about attachments and clinging, what is really meant is not so

much the attachments to certain ravings, such as alcohol, drugs, habits of

behavior, and so on, but the relentless grasping and effort to apply

attention (the power of the mind) to hold every emerging thought as being

"I" - The relinquishing of attention, also dissolves attachment altogether

In the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is mentioned 2 areas to meditate as being

acceptable, one being the "self-effulgent" light in the heart and the other

the sahasrara. Quite often people mistake this mention of the heart for the

anahata chakra, but the only location in the body that is self-effulgent and

known as the seat of consciousness (samvit) is the hrdayam, which lights the

whole body and denotes the sense of "I" and realness to every thought.

 

"Hrd" means literally "That which sucks in everything" and "ayam"

means

"This is the place"

 

The description is both apt and exact, for the sensation is much like Steven

Hawkins identical definition of a "Black Hole" that he has defined as "That

which sucks in everything"

 

There are many kinds of practices of yoga, yoga meaning a process through

which the "seer" (subject "I") is isolated.

 

Uniquely in the Kundalini Yoga practice of Yogi Bhajan, through the

combination of powerful pranayamas (breathing exercises performed in a

manner to derive their full effect) and postures and movements that being

pressure on nadis, glands and organs and chakras, which bring the saturation

of blood and the opening of capillaries and cells to receive and store the

air charged into the bloodstream through this breathing, gradually, but very

rapidly depending on the carefulness, mindfulness, frequency, power and

inner stillness one brings to each kundalini yoga exercise, set, kriyas and

meditations, the cells begin to fill with prana.

 

Prana is our life force, that intelligent force that drives the creation of

atoms, molecules, cells all the way up through the human body and throughout

the universe in one whole undifferentiated unfolding.

 

Prana is also the consciousness of this indwelling and pervasive energy, so

that we can say that energy and consciousness are one and the same.

 

As we practice this type of Kundalini Yoga, the using of powerful breath and

posture and movement together, the body fills with light (stored prana).

When we add sound through mantra, the light packed in the cells diffuses and

blends with the light in other cells throughout the body and the body (and

aura) resonates with an inner sound and inner light that dissolves a

lifetime of deep encoding of inherent and built up thought and action

patterns around with we build our sense of identity.

 

The body begins to become electric, then etheric, and with that the sense of

identity begins to make a radical shift away from the attention to thoughts

and images and towards its actual source and True Identity with the Living

Light in the Hrdayam. The energy vibration of the mind rises above the

frequency of thought generation to the level of pure etheric intuition,

thesource of the manifestation of thoughts. The mind becomes satvic and

pure, the body looses its inertia, and the intelligent force within the

prana that recognizes the Truth of the Atman as the single seer, and begins

to awaken.

 

Then, very suddenly, something entirely new happens. The reflected

consciousness in the brain that illumines our thoughts and impressions,

inverts to reflect only the Self in the Heart (Hrdayam).

 

The nerve between the heart and brain (hrdayam and sahasrara) begins to

radiate incandescently, as the 2 poles fill with light. Thoughts cannot

arise and are obliterated in the fierceness of the polarity of the unturned

mind. We call the force of the inward turning mind by the word

"Discrimination" (of the real and unreal). All images and sensation from the

physical, to the mental to the mystical are discarded out of hand. What

remains is the single soundless pulsation of "I as I" or "I AM THAT I AM"

 

Kundalini, in brief, is this singular awakening. At first you hear the

Truth of your Identity in the Heart, and then this "hearing" becomes

remembrance, as in the ancient saying "Tatvamasi" or "I am That"

 

Then a sensation, like a Singularity, is felt in the Heart and you begin to

abide as the awareness of both pervasive consciousness and an indescribable

timeless stream with its timeless core in the Hrdayam that penetrates

through the Sahasrara leaving the body and mind transfigured and all

consumed.

 

What remains is simple Self, wherein there is no sense of a doer.

Everything happens automatically. On the one hand, the inside and outside

are whole, on the other, you realize yourself to be simple substratum,

self-effulgent screen, upon and within which the creation manifests Yogi

Bhajan calls the whole process the "Science of the Ik Tar" or "One Star"

It is the experience of the non-dual, in which ideas of a subject to see and

object to be seen begin to fade, and you abide as the single pervasive, and

undifferentiated, uncaused, unconditioned being - the eternal Light that

lights everything. The use of the mind's power of attention to see begins

to dissolve, just as the use of a full moon to see, when the sun rises is of

no use, even though we might see its reflection in the clear blue sky.

 

At this stage, this may be interesting to know about. As one keeps

practicing sets every day and take occasional sets from kundalini yoga

classes taught, and eventually, if the chance arises to become a kundalini

yoga teacher, while always reading the scriptures of the various religions

in which this experience is told, then all this process will awaken on its

own. You will "hear" It, and you will discover that the sense of "I" one

feel now dimly in relation to the varied thoughts and impressions is the

same as the Universal Being Consciousness. Your identity is now single and

pervasive, versus varied with shifting focus. You will have the impression

that you are coming out of a stupor and recollecting your True Self. Then,

the fog of attention to thoughts and images will lift under the brilliance

of the One Star, and you will abide as That.

 

For additional information, click to

http://www.kundalini-matashakti.com/MayaNonDualism.rtf and

http://www.kundalini-matashakti.com/TheFundamentalsofKundaliniYoga.doc

 

There are other articles in this section as well

http://www.kundalini-matashakti.com/ArticlesOnKundaliniYogaAndNonDualismByPi

eter.html

and

http://www.kundalini-matashakti.com/KundaliniYogaArticlesByYogiBhajan.html

also

http://www.kundalini-matashakti.com/SravanaSacredBooksandGitasonNonDualism.h

tml

 

 

Jap-Ji of the Sikhs also writes about Hearing, Remembrance and Abiding.

 

The poem is called Adorned with Honour, sung by Liv Singh, and located in

the website http://www.invinciblemusic.com.

 

Pieter

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Monday, December 23, 2002 12:51 PM

Digest Number 1993